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Enhanced Lactic Acid Production from Cheese Whey with Nutrient Supplement Addition
Rosana G. Moreira, Editor-in-Chief; Texas A&M UniversityThis is an Invited Paper from International Commission of Agricultural Engineering (CIGR, Commission Internationale du Genie Rural) E-Journal Volume 5 (2003): A.E. Ghaly, M.S.A. Tango, and M.A. Adams. Enhanced Lactic Acid Production from Cheese Whey with Nutrient Supplement Addition. Vol. V. May 2003
On the instability of 3d null singularities
String propagation on a three-dimensional Lorentzian string orbifold with a
null singularity has been studied by Horowitz and Steif, and more recently by
Liu, Moore and Seiberg. We analyze the target space as a classical
gravitational background. The singularity becomes spacelike when an arbitrarily
small amount of matter is thrown at the singularity. This can be seen directly
by studying the null singularity as a limit of the M=0, J=0 BTZ black hole
metric.Comment: 9 pages, uses harvmac.tex. v2: minor wording changes in introduction,
fixed reference typo, new reference
Quantum carpet interferometry for trapped atomic Bose-Einstein condensates
We propose an ``interferometric'' scheme for Bose-Einstein condensates using
near-field diffraction. The scheme is based on the phenomenon of intermode
traces or quantum carpets; we show how it may be used in the detection of weak
forces.Comment: 4 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev.
Carotenoid-based skin ornaments reflect foraging propensity in a seabird, Sula leucogaster
Carotenoid-based ornaments are common signalling features in animals. It has long been proposed that such ornaments communicate information about foraging abilities to potential mates. However, evidence linking foraging with ornamentation is largely missing from unmanipulated, free-ranging populations. To investigate this relationship, we studied a coastal population of brown booby (Sula leucogaster brewsteri), a seabird with a carotenoid-based gular skin ornament. ÎŽ13C values from both feathers and blood plasma were negatively correlated with male gular colour, indicating birds that consumed more pelagic prey in offshore locations had more ornamented skin than those that fed on nearshore, benthic prey. This relationship was supported by our GPS tracking results, which revealed longer, more offshore foraging trips among highly ornamented males. Our data show that brown booby ornaments are honest indicators of foraging propensity; a link consistent with the rarity hypothesis and potentially driven by the concentration of carotenoids found in phytoplankton versus benthic algae. Carotenoid-based ornaments may reflect foraging tendencies in animals such as coastal predators that use food webs with distinct carotenoid profiles
Fermion scattering off electroweak phase transition kink walls with hypermagnetic fields
We study the scattering of fermions off a finite width kink wall during the
electroweak phase transition in the presence of a background hypermagnetic
field. We derive and solve the Dirac equation for such fermions and compute the
reflection and transmission coefficients for the case when the fermions move
from the symmetric to the broken symmetry phase. We show that the chiral nature
of the fermion coupling with the background field in the symmetric phase
generates an axial asymmetry in the scattering processes. We discuss possible
implications of such axial charge segregation for baryon number generation.Comment: 9 pages, 3 Postscript figures, uses RevTeX4. Expanded discussion,
published versio
Axially asymmetric fermion scattering off electroweak phase transition bubble walls with hypermagnetic fields
We show that in the presence of large scale primordial hypermagnetic fields,
it is possible to generate an axial asymmetry for a first order electroweak
phase transition. This happens during the reflection and transmission of
fermions off the true vacuum bubbles, due to the chiral nature of the fermion
coupling with the background field in the symmetric phase. We derive and solve
the Dirac equation for such fermions and compute the reflection and
transmission coefficients for the case when these fermions move from the
symmetric to the symmetry broken phase. We also comment on the possible
implications of such axial charge segregation processes for baryon number
generation.Comment: 8 pages, 2 Encapsulated Postscript figures, uses ReVTeX and
epsfig.sty, expanded discussion, version to appear in Phys. Rev.
Production Asymmetry Measurement of High Xt Hadrons in pp Collisions at 40 GeV
Single-spin asymmetries for hadrons have been measured in collisions of
transversely-polarized 40 GeV/c proton beam with an unpolarized liquid hydrogen
target. The asymmetries were measured for pi+-, K+-, protons and antiprotons,
produced in the central region (0.02 < Xf < 0.10 and 0.7 < Pt < 3.4 GeV/c).
Asymmetries for pi+-, K+- and antiprotons show within measurement errors the
linear dependence on Xt and change a sign near 0.37. For protons negative
asymmetry, independent of Xt has been found. The results are compared with
those of other experiments and SU(6) model predictions.Comment: 25 pages (Latex), 12 Postscript figure
Measurement of \Gamma_{ee}(J/\psi)*Br(J/\psi->e^+e^-) and \Gamma_{ee}(J/\psi)*Br(J/\psi->\mu^+\mu^-)
The products of the electron width of the J/\psi meson and the branching
fraction of its decays to the lepton pairs were measured using data from the
KEDR experiment at the VEPP-4M electron-positron collider. The results are
\Gamma_{ee}(J/\psi)*Br(J/\psi->e^+e^-)=(0.3323\pm0.0064\pm0.0048) keV,
\Gamma_{ee}(J/\psi)*Br(J/\psi->\mu^+\mu^-)=(0.3318\pm0.0052\pm0.0063) keV.
Their combinations
\Gamma_{ee}\times(\Gamma_{ee}+\Gamma_{\mu\mu})/\Gamma=(0.6641\pm0.0082\pm0.0100)
keV,
\Gamma_{ee}/\Gamma_{\mu\mu}=1.002\pm0.021\pm0.013 can be used to improve
theaccuracy of the leptonic and full widths and test leptonic universality.
Assuming e\mu universality and using the world average value of the lepton
branching fraction, we also determine the leptonic \Gamma_{ll}=5.59\pm0.12 keV
and total \Gamma=94.1\pm2.7 keV widths of the J/\psi meson.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figure
Gravitational Coupling and Dynamical Reduction of The Cosmological Constant
We introduce a dynamical model to reduce a large cosmological constant to a
sufficiently small value. The basic ingredient in this model is a distinction
which has been made between the two unit systems used in cosmology and particle
physics. We have used a conformal invariant gravitational model to define a
particular conformal frame in terms of large scale properties of the universe.
It is then argued that the contributions of mass scales in particle physics to
the vacuum energy density should be considered in a different conformal frame.
In this manner, a decaying mechanism is presented in which the conformal factor
appears as a dynamical field and plays a key role to relax a large effective
cosmological constant. Moreover, we argue that this model also provides a
possible explanation for the coincidence problem.Comment: To appear in GR
Primeval Corrections to the CMB Anisotropies
We show that deviations of the quantum state of the inflaton from the thermal
vacuum of inflation may leave an imprint in the CMB anisotropies. The quantum
dynamics of the inflaton in such a state produces corrections to the
inflationary fluctuations, which may be observable. Because these effects
originate from IR physics below the Planck scale, they will dominate over any
trans-Planckian imprints in any theory which obeys decoupling. Inflation sweeps
away these initial deviations and forces its quantum state closer to the
thermal vacuum. We view this as the quantum version of the cosmic no-hair
theorem. Such imprints in the CMB may be a useful, independent test of the
duration of inflation, or of significant features in the inflaton potential
about 60 e-folds before inflation ended, instead of an unlikely discovery of
the signatures of quantum gravity. The absence of any such substructure would
suggest that inflation lasted uninterrupted much longer than
e-folds.Comment: 17 pages, latex, no figures; v3: added references and comments, final
version to appear in Phys. Rev.
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